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https://www.dw.com/en/alexander-the-fake/video-66601821 "...with the organ bulging through the cloth: that was never done in Antiquity!" Excellent video , time well spent watching! (This story has not been posted previously.) https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/51/4d/ba/514dbaf569cdf5d300d1395c82c8...

So why do Church Fathers rail against the Idea of a 2nd God, if there were no 2nd God? Why did the rabbis condemn the Two Power thesis if no 2nd God were in play? Who was the 2nd God, then? "The lady doth protest too much, methinks..." https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71Ohe-rjvjL._AC_UF...

Oh, what treasures you'll find! (Updated) https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/aug/26/british-museum-reputation-damaged-treasures-loss https://news.artnet.com/art-world/british-museum-curator-of-greek-and-roman-art-allegedly-stole-artifacts-2351647 Mark-to-market: £63,000 item worth 40 quid at a...

At Elephantine in Egypt c.400 BC, Judaean Yahu was venerated (by a presumed Judaean Semite descendant) together w/ Egyptian Khnum. Whether a direct correspondence or whatever relationship existed exactly between the two gods remains unclear from this particular context, but we can be sure that Khnum...

Haaretz 8/17/23 article . https://img.haarets.co.il/bs/00000189-fcfa-d9d1-a79b-fffb8b510000/81/96/98a997ce4f629d23751bfcecabbf/53072358.JPG?precrop=4032,2344,x0,y419&height=488&width=840 “I’m going to spend the next few years convincing my students that this is not archaeology,” jokes Prof. ...

Who doesn't love a good mystery, tho? When things don't add up, things are not what they might seem.

The Ark of Moses -- and the Infant Who Didn't Cry? An Exposed Baby Who Didn't Die.

Protected by Nile God Sobek, perhaps?

The best myths have multiple meanings. Serpentine Darkness is 'Moist Nature' in the Hermetic Creation Myth. We can also imagine this as primordial animated Life, of what kind? CH 1.4: καὶ μετ' ὀλίγον σκότος κατωφερὲς ἦν, ἐν μέρει γεγενημένον, φοβερόν τε καὶ στυγνόν, σκολιῶς ἐσπειραμένον, ὡς εἰκάσαι ...

The Septuagint gives in Leviticus οἰωνιεῖσθε and in Deuteronomy κληδονιζόμενος ... Considered 'Chaldaean arts'. If the OT was largely composed at Alexandria c.272 BC, we can safely ignore any strictly Roman meanings and focus instead on Judeo-Egyptian or Hellenistic definitions primarily. In fact, ...